This past spring I had the wonderful opportunity to help produce a documentary about the Paxson Art Project taking place in Paxson Elementary School in Missoula, a program that was developed by the Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC). Visiting artists came into the school and taught kids from kindergarten through fifth grade new art concepts. Currently these kids only receive 6 hours of art per year. Yes, you heard that right - per YEAR. I stopped by these visiting artists' classes and put together an informative video about the project which will be shown to folks around the area to hopefully help educate them about the need for art for ...
Green Investment Group Acquires Old Smurfit-Stone Site – {Missoula Editorial & Commercial Photography}
Getting back to my photojournalism roots a bit, last week I was hired by Cork Tree Creative to photograph a press conference with Governor Brian Schweitzer and Ray Stillwell at the old Smurfit-Stone mill site to announce Green Investment Group, Inc.'s (GIGI) acquisition of the site. This is the seventh Smurfit-Stone paper mill acquired since 2006 by GIGI, an Alton, Illinois-based company that acquires and redevelops Brownfield sites throughout North America. (A Brownfield site is an abandoned or underutilized industrial or commercial site that is well-positioned for redevelopment.) Plans for the future use of the Missoula site are ...
On Not Taking Life for Granted – {Personal Post}
As some of you know, I zipped across the country for a few days to my parents' home for Christmas. We were lucky enough to all be together again for the holiday and had ourselves a lovely Christmas together. My brother and I stayed up late Christmas day, talking about anything and everything into the wee hours, munching on cookies in my parents' kitchen. We were startled when we heard pounding on our front door. Who could that be at midnight on Christmas Day? So odd... my brother answered and it was a policeman come to tell us that our neighbor's house was on fire. My brother and I asked the police man if everyone was ok, if they'd ...